SQL Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,869 7,818 12,825
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.44% 18.91% 18.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.36% 38.50% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 5,241 7,979
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,098 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +7.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,768 20,309 40,841
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.84% 49.11% 58.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,384 14,957 23,940
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL.

SQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

SQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (2.63%) IIS
1 128 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 85 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 78 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 67 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 61 (1.25%) Apache
6 54 (1.11%) SAS
7 48 (0.99%) CMS
8 33 (0.68%) Confluence
9 15 (0.31%) Drupal
10 13 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 13 (0.27%) WordPress
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.10%) JBoss
13 5 (0.10%) Luigi
13 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
14 4 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.082%) EPiServer
Applications
1 265 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.31%) SPSS
7 14 (0.29%) Simulink
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.021%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 59 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 16 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
7 7 (0.14%) Shopify
7 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.082%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.062%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,885 (38.71%) Azure
2 1,024 (21.03%) Power Platform
3 961 (19.74%) AWS
4 320 (6.57%) GCP
5 300 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 202 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 199 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 191 (3.92%) SaaS
9 181 (3.72%) Snowflake
10 180 (3.70%) Serverless
11 125 (2.57%) GitHub
12 123 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 108 (2.22%) PowerApps
14 98 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
16 84 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
17 80 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 69 (1.42%) Entra ID
19 63 (1.29%) Amazon S3
19 63 (1.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 93 (1.91%) Internet
2 80 (1.64%) Broadband
3 72 (1.48%) Firewall
4 68 (1.40%) DNS
5 49 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.78%) DHCP
7 37 (0.76%) HTTP
8 36 (0.74%) VPN
9 34 (0.70%) Network Security
10 28 (0.58%) SSL
11 15 (0.31%) Modbus
11 15 (0.31%) SAN
12 13 (0.27%) WAN
13 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 12 (0.25%) LAN
14 11 (0.23%) FTP
15 10 (0.21%) MQTT
15 10 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.18%) Multicast
17 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,347 (27.66%) SQL Server
2 967 (19.86%) Power BI
3 537 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
4 417 (8.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 417 (8.56%) Tableau
5 372 (7.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 326 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
7 277 (5.69%) Relational Database
8 260 (5.34%) MySQL
9 244 (5.01%) NoSQL
10 228 (4.68%) Data Lake
11 226 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 188 (3.86%) Oracle Database
13 165 (3.39%) BigQuery
14 137 (2.81%) MongoDB
15 106 (2.18%) Big Data
16 95 (1.95%) Oracle Database 11g
17 83 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 77 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
19 63 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 441 (9.06%) Git
2 147 (3.02%) JIRA
3 126 (2.59%) Visual Studio
4 115 (2.36%) Jenkins
5 97 (1.99%) GitLab
6 54 (1.11%) Postman
7 49 (1.01%) Selenium
8 37 (0.76%) Maven
8 37 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 34 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
10 31 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 29 (0.60%) JMeter
12 28 (0.58%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.55%) Cucumber
13 27 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
17 20 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,436 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 1,143 (23.48%) Finance
3 649 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 401 (8.24%) Retail
5 298 (6.12%) Banking
6 297 (6.10%) Public Sector
7 206 (4.23%) Law
8 189 (3.88%) Marketing
9 181 (3.72%) Front Office
10 180 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
11 163 (3.35%) Legal
12 143 (2.94%) Back Office
13 113 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 100 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 94 (1.93%) Games
16 73 (1.50%) Advertising
17 63 (1.29%) Telecoms
18 55 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
19 54 (1.11%) Tech for Good
20 41 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,592 (32.70%) Developer
2 1,089 (22.37%) Senior
3 869 (17.85%) Analyst
4 463 (9.51%) Lead
5 440 (9.04%) .NET Developer
6 410 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 386 (7.93%) Senior Developer
8 369 (7.58%) Software Engineer
9 324 (6.65%) Data Analyst
10 215 (4.42%) Software Developer
11 211 (4.33%) C# Developer
12 202 (4.15%) DBA
13 200 (4.11%) Consultant
14 198 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
15 184 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
16 177 (3.64%) Applications Support
17 144 (2.96%) Support Analyst
18 143 (2.94%) SQL DBA
19 136 (2.79%) SQL Developer
20 123 (2.53%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,169 (24.01%) .NET
2 622 (12.77%) HTML
3 515 (10.58%) CSS
4 514 (10.56%) ASP.NET
5 421 (8.65%) .NET Core
6 346 (7.11%) React
7 345 (7.09%) AngularJS
8 308 (6.33%) REST
9 273 (5.61%) ASP.NET MVC
10 258 (5.30%) Entity Framework
11 253 (5.20%) HTML5
12 247 (5.07%) .NET Framework
13 242 (4.97%) Blazor
14 209 (4.29%) Web Services
15 201 (4.13%) JSON
16 190 (3.90%) CSS3
17 183 (3.76%) RESTful
18 169 (3.47%) XML
19 162 (3.33%) Vue
20 149 (3.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
2 161 (3.31%) Data Structures
3 148 (3.04%) Hedge funds
4 133 (2.73%) Derivative
5 128 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 125 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 124 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 123 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
9 101 (2.07%) Client/Server
10 91 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 88 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 85 (1.75%) Equities
12 85 (1.75%) Fixed Income
13 81 (1.66%) Cloud Native
14 72 (1.48%) Onboarding
15 55 (1.13%) NHS
16 52 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
17 49 (1.01%) IoT
18 48 (0.99%) Mobile App
19 44 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 424 (8.71%) Windows
2 300 (6.16%) Linux
3 123 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.85%) Unix
5 81 (1.66%) VMS
6 67 (1.38%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.70%) Android
8 31 (0.64%) Windows 7
9 30 (0.62%) Windows 8
10 27 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (0.47%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 19 (0.39%) CentOS
14 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
15 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
16 14 (0.29%) zOS
17 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.23%) AIX
19 8 (0.16%) Solaris
20 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,343 (27.58%) Agile
2 1,073 (22.04%) Business Intelligence
3 911 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
4 896 (18.40%) Analytics
5 677 (13.90%) DevOps
6 669 (13.74%) ETL
7 629 (12.92%) Software Engineering
8 588 (12.08%) Visualisation
9 557 (11.44%) Mentoring
10 501 (10.29%) Full Stack Development
11 488 (10.02%) Data Science
12 482 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence
13 464 (9.53%) Data Analysis
14 421 (8.65%) Data Modelling
15 418 (8.58%) Machine Learning
16 401 (8.24%) Data Pipeline
17 394 (8.09%) MVC
18 384 (7.89%) CI/CD
18 384 (7.89%) TDD
19 363 (7.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,258 (25.84%) C#
2 1,252 (25.71%) Python
3 919 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 571 (11.73%) T-SQL
5 466 (9.57%) Java
6 263 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 240 (4.93%) PL/SQL
8 143 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 132 (2.71%) PHP
10 128 (2.63%) R
11 107 (2.20%) VB.NET
12 88 (1.81%) C++
13 81 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 71 (1.46%) VB
15 64 (1.31%) VBA
16 53 (1.09%) Bash
17 52 (1.07%) C
18 50 (1.03%) Groovy
19 45 (0.92%) Kotlin
19 45 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 842 (17.29%) Degree
2 279 (5.73%) DBS Check
3 181 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 168 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 159 (3.27%) Security Cleared
6 123 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 120 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 49 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.55%) PhD
11 21 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 20 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.29%) CISSP
15 13 (0.27%) CISA
16 11 (0.23%) CIPD
17 10 (0.21%) GIAC
17 10 (0.21%) HND
18 9 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.08%) QA
3 57 (1.17%) SLA
4 55 (1.13%) GDPR
5 40 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 36 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.31%) PMO
8 13 (0.27%) COBIT
8 13 (0.27%) ITGC
9 9 (0.18%) NIST
10 8 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 5 (0.10%) IFRS
14 4 (0.082%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.082%) HL7
14 4 (0.082%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.082%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.062%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.062%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 269 (5.52%) Docker
2 206 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 85 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 79 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 32 (0.66%) XenApp
6 32 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 30 (0.62%) VirtualBox
8 12 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 11 (0.23%) Firmware
10 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
11 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.041%) RACF
14 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.041%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.041%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 264 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 205 (4.21%) Terraform
3 71 (1.46%) Ansible
4 35 (0.72%) Grafana
5 34 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.35%) SCOM
8 14 (0.29%) Puppet
9 13 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.23%) WSUS
11 10 (0.21%) SCCM
12 9 (0.18%) logstash
12 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.082%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,267 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 418 (8.58%) Oracle
3 405 (8.32%) Databricks
4 205 (4.21%) Google
5 107 (2.20%) VMware
6 96 (1.97%) SAP
7 84 (1.73%) IBM
8 37 (0.76%) Citrix
9 35 (0.72%) Salesforce
10 33 (0.68%) F5
11 30 (0.62%) Alteryx
12 26 (0.53%) IFS
13 25 (0.51%) Sage
14 23 (0.47%) Facebook
15 22 (0.45%) Adobe
16 19 (0.39%) Aderant
17 18 (0.37%) NEC
17 18 (0.37%) Teradata
18 17 (0.35%) Talend
19 16 (0.33%) Murex